Colombia athletics prize money
Colombia has taken $206,750 out of athletics, 54th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Flor Ruiz is the biggest earner on $84,500, 40.9% of the national total.
All of it belongs to eight athletes by name. Colombia has never been paid a relay purse, a World Relays ladder place or a cross country team standing, which are the three things that pay a federation rather than a person.
Every Colombia athlete athletics has paid
8 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flor Ruiz | 15 | — | $84,500 |
| 2 | Caterine Ibargüen | 10 | 5 | $61,000 |
| 3 | Natalia Linares | 4 | — | $39,000 |
| 4 | Anthony Zambrano | 3 | 1 | $16,500 |
| 5 | Jhon Murillo | 1 | — | $2,000 |
| 6 | Ronal Longa | 1 | — | $2,000 |
| 7 | Evelis Aguilar | 2 | — | $1,250 |
| 8 | Mauricio Ortega | 1 | — | $500 |
Career totals across all six competitions, not a single season. PAID is how many finishing places were paid for, which is a different count from wins: a second place in a Diamond League final and a world title are both one payment. Eight of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All eight of them
Flor Ruiz holds 40.9% of everything Colombia has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 89.2% of it between them, and $25,844 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Colombia
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 8 | 6 | $127,750 | — | $127,750 |
| World Championships | 2 | — | $29,000 | — | $29,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 1 | — | $10,000 | — | $10,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 1 | — | $40,000 | — | $40,000 |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 8 | 6 | $206,750 | — | $206,750 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Colombia on $127,750, 61.8% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Colombia. Colombia has won nothing at the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column counts the people each competition paid, so it does not add up to 8: two athletes have been paid by more than one of the six, and are counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Flor Ruiz has been paid by three of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Colombia against the rest
Where $206,750 puts Colombia
That is 0.3% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 54th out of 121. Colombia has Turkey above on $207,000 and Kazakhstan below on $206,500.
The biggest of the 121 is the United States on $16,292,792, which is 21.7% of everything the sport has paid to a country. The full money list ranks every one of them, and the six competitions behind these figures each have a section of their own.
Countries either side of Colombia
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Mexico
- Finland
- Belarus
- Dominica
- Latvia
- British Virgin Islands
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Colombia won in athletics?
$206,750 across the six competitions this section holds: the Diamond League, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships. That is 54th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.3% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Colombia athlete earns the most prize money?
Flor Ruiz, on $84,500 from fifteen paid finishes. That is 40.9% of everything Colombia has won. Caterine Ibargüen is next on $61,000.
Does prize money won by Colombia go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to eight athletes by name. Colombia has never been paid a relay purse, a World Relays ladder place or a cross country team standing, which are the three things that pay a federation rather than a person.
How many athletes from Colombia have won athletics prize money?
8, sharing $206,750 between them, which is $25,844 each. Two of them have won a title, 6 in all. Two have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Colombia
Every figure on this page comes out of one of the six below, and each has its own section here, event by event and edition by edition, with the full ladder of what each finishing place was worth. The country money list puts Colombia against the other 120 the sport has paid.